Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief..

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can.

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different language….

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment..

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them..

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong..

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it..

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio..

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, an….

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around th….

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both..

The job of art is to chase ugliness away..

I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se..

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that..

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and ….

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you..

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, peo….

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 ment….

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have ….

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting..

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for ….